Zixmail, now affiliated with Yahoo!, provides encrypted mailing and seems to be picking up steam. They're a public company from Texas I think and I have yet to hear anything bad about their services.
This post angers me somewhat since I've been urgently sending in submissions to post Michael Moore's plea to the 55% non-voting majority. If you want to hear someone other than JonKatz rant on the issue (even though he makes some solid points), I suggest checking out Michael Moore's contribution, it can be found on the front page of his site. For those who don't know, Moore is the creator of Roger & Me and the current show on Bravo, The Awful Truth.
First off, not every employee is going to know how to encrypt their messages so Malda's suggestion is hardly universal. But dealing with the issue, I am not necessarily opposed. While laws that regard penalties for anonymous posters (eh-hem) to be responsible for their posts are ridiculous, using your company's infrastructure to degrade it should not be permissable and oughtta come at some sort of risk.
Was the final question of the post rhetorical? He askes, Will future designs from AMD and other competitors be similar to Intel's innovative seventh generation core? I would think this would be a no-brainer...ABSOLUTELY, POSITIVELY, YES.
Now this may seem like a neat solution for the Russians to disolve this public embarassment they call a space program, but I, of Russian descent mind you, am not pleased about this decision. Remember people, you're not even allowed to bring FRUIT into a new country, let alone drop a space thingamabub that's covered in SPACE MOSS! Siz feet deep at last report. Who knows what interstellar goop that thing is carrying? At the very least they could Lysol the thing first. Hmmmm, good PR op for Lysol. Sorry folks, gotta go.
I would imagine that for the Slashdot collective, projects starting with gathering the requirements are definitely in the minority. It's unlikely for that to change due to the organic growth that most of these projects take on, where either the client or the developer don't really know what they want from the start, or that the idea simply has to be hammered out, sometimes in conjunction with, sometimes prior to, the requirement gathering. The other major consideration is, of course, the BOTTOM LINE. Nobody is going to pay you high hourly wages for gathering requirements if they can help it. Plus, it allows them an out when you mess up some aspect of the development. This is a bit of a sinister outlook, but probably one many have dealt with.
We've all heard these sort of claims before. There was a company called Verance, oh wait, they're still around, and even though they've moved to encryption et al services, there was a time when their executive was poised to do the exact same as the claim made in the post's article.
This is not just an Asian thang. In conjunction with Sun, there is a Vancouver based company (could be Victoria) that is quickly implementing smart card tech for the residents there, in the hopes that the health card system will be replaced with universal smart cards which apparently have tons of security encryption to prevent the copying the poster asked about (what that encryption is still seems to be a bit of a mystery with these particular cards). The first test is, oddly enough, being done on kids in sporting leagues who will use the smart cards to track, pay and interact with their leagues efficiently. Sorry, I can't remember the name off hand. I'm gonna go find the company name and then post it under this.
I've been waiting for a bill of this nature for some time now. I work with audio encryption technologies, mostly from a design standpoint, articulating the navigation and continuity of the programming. That said, I believe strongly in the basic tenets of artist's rights, owner/consumer privelege, and even the unpopular rights of the distributor and facilitator (ie. the labels).
It's about time something like this went through official channels. It is absolutely the right of the owner to disseminate their purchased material as they see fit, so long as it does not jeopardize the rest of the artist/audience relationship (ie. revenue losses, misrepresentation, doctoring of copyrighted materials). No musician under Universal or BMG was forced to sign with them - they chose to turn their expression into consumable product, so they shouldn't complain about everyone taking part in the exchange they chose as well.
If they wanted otherwise, they should have stayed in that garage.
I love that lame-duck expression that the universe was built through some sort of perfect ascension of perfectly ordered but perfectly random growth. Isn't it time we all gave in to the fact that the progression from the deep green sea to our living room sofas, or the process of giant space litter to a massive carbon and oxygen ball teeming with life, is just the result of chance. And by chance I mean Al Gore.
In the subtext to the post, the Slashdot helmer complains that very few Bush supporters are coming forward to make posts (other than the AnonCow posts to the Bush HQ site). But why would a supporter of Bush - even if he was misdirected to Slashdot - come out of hiding to admit that their candidate of choice doesn't even own a computer?
I'm waiting for the expanded Sally Struther parody, where Archie bunker champions segregating site content, Meathead leads the leftist open source movement, and Edith pretends she doesn't know what's going on but meanwhile runs the whole thing cooking with Cisco in the kitchen.
I like a good hack/crack session as good as the next troll, but some of the comments beneath this post are WAY too supportive of the process. The mainstream has a rational right to associate hacking/cracking with criminal behavior, because often that's exactly what it is. Saying, sniffers are extremely useful networking tools does not allow for some sort of indemnity from very real and true accusations when those tools are misused. If you want to do something that circumvents the mainstream...that's your decision, but don't expect rulings to go your way.
A university that truly captured the spirit of the open source revolution would be one that allowed the students to dictate and expand the curriculum in an organic, ever-growing environment. Not just by incorporating some RedHat doodads into traditional environs.
The only thing that got me excited in his letter was his mention of Spock vs. Darth, and that the thought that he might begin speaking of which he knows. Articulating thoughts well does not make them right, and his meandering ramblings leave no Slashdotter closer to any political epiphany.
i posted this as a joke last time, Calmtext Markup Language, the language for ridalin coders - but it looks like someone's already got to it. Un-freakin-believable.
When will the lawmakers learn....anonymity is the cornerstone of the open source generation. It's like the verbal equal to the hit-and-run. Removing our right to anonymity is like making us all meet face to face....and let's own up to it - most of us would be wallflowers at that dance.
As true socialism differs from the communism we have seen in parts of Asia, Europe, etc, there seems to be an unreasonable intolerance of it in the United States, whereby the populace tends to be unable to refocus from the communist dictatorships that have salted the wounds of socialist ideals. Socialism, a system truly built FOR the people, BY the people, is as close to open source politics as we know. Will you then make it part of your mandate to open source Washington?
It's easy to get upset over the SPAM issues, and even easier to swear vengeance with hot air lawsuits and scare-tactic emails, but really there is no heft, no clout, no MEAT to the attempt. We know it and they know it. So how does one get even with the would-be SPAMMERS? There are several methods, but my personal favorite was inadvertantly popularized on an episode of Seinfeld (where Elaine switches her phone number and gets one with the new 646 area code). This only works for those SPAMMERS (such as Sandbox) that have a phone number accessible to you. Take the number and find an adfaxing service that is local to their number or sends to 800 numbers (there are ones in most major American centers). Give the service their number. The service is free for the subscriber. Ask the service for the high volume/hevy flow distribution. That should account for at least 25 fax calls to their 800 number (or often basement apartment number). That's one method. More available, but I'll just spam you guys the rest.
my understanding was that they wanted to attempt the same configuration on MIR, but the spacemoss got in the way (as you can see, i never tire of mentioning mir's spacemoss woes - heehee)
i know, i know, and it's love a technologically confused rooskie week too (hey i can get away with that, i'm belarussian)
Well what do you know...Slashdot wants to open source another field. In this case, though, they are absolutely right. So long as a system of checks and balances is erected (for gov't contracts, school board programs, etc.) then open source is a logical step forward. Somehow I don't see that happening until we have an open sourcer at a high level of office. I'd vote for Commander Taco but he might not get the vote, him being a minority leader and all.
for all of us who've wanted to arbitrarily be pointed to the middle of your browser or processing page - now you can! minutes of fun with this dandy device. (unfortunately, you will have to give up your "up arrow" key, but we have a patent pending for merging the two functions into one key!)
mojo nation, which has been blatantly advertised on this space before, is not the coolest filesharing around. bigredh, known more commonly as hotline is far better as are several of the gnutella-spawned children. mojo nation has to prove some profitability and pass some accessibility and traffic tests before it can rank up there with the big guys.
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It's about time something like this went through official channels. It is absolutely the right of the owner to disseminate their purchased material as they see fit, so long as it does not jeopardize the rest of the artist/audience relationship (ie. revenue losses, misrepresentation, doctoring of copyrighted materials). No musician under Universal or BMG was forced to sign with them - they chose to turn their expression into consumable product, so they shouldn't complain about everyone taking part in the exchange they chose as well.
If they wanted otherwise, they should have stayed in that garage.
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i know, i know, and it's love a technologically confused rooskie week too (hey i can get away with that, i'm belarussian)
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for all of us who've wanted to arbitrarily be pointed to the middle of your browser or processing page - now you can! minutes of fun with this dandy device. (unfortunately, you will have to give up your "up arrow" key, but we have a patent pending for merging the two functions into one key!)
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